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Publication
Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Paper
Fluid dynamics of a quantized vortex filament in a hole
Abstract
The behavior of nucleated vortex loops and of remanent vortex filaments in idealized circular and slit-like orifices has been investigated by direct computation. It is found that such vortices can be stretched by the diverging flow on the exit side of the orifice. The energy needed to stretch the vortex is abstracted from the flow field and observed as "dissipation". This occurs in the form of discrete phase-slip events in the case of nucleated vortex loops, and in the form of multiple-phase-slip cascades when a remanent vortex is involved. © 1993 Plenum Publishing Corporation.